The Main Course Of The Battle
[UNREVISION] PART 8: You're Not Alone
DHOOORS!!
Seeji fired his gun up. Making Takai a bit of a distance.
“Then can I still be called a helper if I kill you here?”
DEEGGS!
A gaze with a very high killing intent, Takai was stunned to see those glowing blue eyes become terrifying.
“Seeji, not here! Someone can see us!”
“What's Takai, you scared? All right, I'll make a dimension. But.... pleasant dimensions to fight..”.
SRIIIIIEING
Seeji uses his new dimension, the ice field.
SYUUUS.
A cold wind hit them. The summer atmosphere disappeared instantly.
“It...”.
“This is my new dimension, what do you think?”
Seeji fired his hot bullet. Takai immediately avoided it and took out his staff.
"Take out your hosekim...! And make me satisfied!! Red Petals!!"
They were fighting in that cold, frozen dimension of Seeji, just like his heart at the moment.
“Seeji!”
“Why huh? A takai? You want to beat me, right.?”
Kuroseki is looking for the right time to turn Seeji's jewel into black through hatred in Seeji's heart.
“Dark... getting darker..”.
The dimension became dark, and the air grew increasingly cold.
"Red hoseki! I'm begging you...!"
Takai tried to raise his body temperature with a red hoseki protector. Seeji kept swinging his split at Takai without the slightest gap.
"You can't go on like this Seeji! Remember what your purpose is to fight!"
"There's nothing more to go for! Everything's gone!"
"Stop Seeji!!"
PYAAAAS!!
Takai swung his Level to make Seeji flung - panting between the cold ice.
"Although your sister is gone, and your place to go home is gone, but you can still believe in the future!! Everything will be fine!"
"No more meaning!!"
Seeji shot Takai with his gun, dozens of bullets fired simultaneously. Takai deftly dodged it and split the wind to blow Seeji away.
“Seeji.. I beg you.“.
Seeji gasped - his body gasps quivered as his body temperature dropped. Takai can be awake because of his protector.
“I have not decided who the winner is..”.
“If you keep this up you can freeze... Seeji, you can't torture yourself..”.
"Be..Risik...!
SRIING
Dimension disappeared.
"Finally..."
Takai then approached Seeji who was still sitting on the ground, holding his body with his hands.
KRRAAK!
“!!”
‘There...the crack..’.
“Ukh!”
"Come on... Seeji.."
KITS!!
Seeji smiled viciously with his eyes lit up. Takai let his guard down, Seeji swung his knife, Takai immediately held him down with his hand.
“Cih..i was fooled...! Wait...?! That's..."
"You can't go anywhere!!"
"Don't! Seeji! Stop!!” Takai shook his head because of something behind him and tried to restrain Seeji.
“No, before you stop.”
“Not! There's someone who..”.
Seeji continued to attack until Takai fell.
"You're done this time!"
Seeji stood in front of him with a knife in his hand.
"Look! No!!"
Takai immediately stood up and dodged, but Seeji managed to swing his knife and pierced through Takai's armor. Hand scratched.
“S-Seeji..”
--‘No... not this... that I want... too dark.... save me!’---.
“Seeji! None of this is my wish!!”
“How..? Does that power protect you? Or torture you?”
DEGGS!
Her smile no longer looked as charming as Takai had seen it before. Really like a killer.
‘Seeji... What is your current state of heart?’
“Hm...it looks like this time will not fail..”.
Kuroseki was waiting for Seeji to take control of his hose. His hand then leads to Seeji who nearly killed Takai.
SRIIIEING
“We end it here... Takai Akari!”
His hand was raised, suddenly behind him someone held his hand.
“SEEJI – SAN!”
“No! Away!”
“Basic bully!!”
SHAYATS!
Seeji accidentally slashes Kyusin's hand, the worker at Himeji's boutique he once helped.
“You....!! Kyusin?!” Seeji was surprised
“See.ji..” Kyusin endured the pain from the scorpion-sized wound. The knife slashed his chest until his flesh was seen.
“No.... Takai…..? A-what's..aku..”.
Seeji looked at both of his palms. Then the split and fell.
'He....'
Kyusin is covered in blood. Takai held back Kyusin who was about to fall.
“Hold!”
Seeji. He looks scared. Seeji ran and left the two of them.
“Seeji! You all right? How's this.” Takai. Kyusin's face started to look pale.
“It's okay, there's someone who can help me. But can you take me there?”
"Where? The infirmary?"
"No...."
Kyusin said, someone named ‘Heal – san” can cure it.
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"Alright, I'll find Seeji."
Takai then runs in search of Seeji, after escorting Kyusin to an old hut in the middle of the forest.
“No...no!!! I didn't do anything!”
Seeji closed both his eyes and ears, trying to forget the old memories that were implied back while running in an uncertain direction.
'What did you do to me!? Ruthless man!!'
'You don't have to do this! I didn't do anything!! Don't come any closer!!'
'Why did you finish us off?! Is your emotions out of control?!
'You've killed him.... Battle Waiter's...'
'DEVILATOR!!'
Instead of disappearing, the shadows and sound of the voice were even clearer in his mind.
“TIDAAK! I DON'T WANT TO!!"
Hoseki Seeji went back out of control and razed the ground he stepped on, before Seeji really fell, Takai had a chance to hold him down.
“Seeji! Relax!”
Seeji glanced at Takai, Seeji's gaze full of uneasiness.
'What makes you feel that way? Seeji?'
Seeji avoided Takai and ran back. Takai then chased after him.
“Seeji.”
“Do not approach!”
Seen still looks panicked. Takai kept approaching him.
“KUBILANG DON'T GET CLOSE!”
THE DHOOORR!
The bullet almost hit Takai and Takai was silent to see Seeji whose bullet had missed it.
“!!”
"I knew your shot would miss, Seeji."
Takai then approached Seeji who was silent on the edge of the hill
“Once again..”.
“What do you want..?”
“Fight with me once more.”
Seeji surprised. Takai seriously challenged him.
“If you win, then I'll leave like we never met. But if you lose, please listen to what I say. This time, don't use your weapons or power. Only with your hands.”
“What...you mean?”
“Are you scared?”
Seeji was surprised to see Takai's hand was still bleeding from his attack earlier
“You...no fear?
“This hand of mine? I don't understand either.... Maybe all this time what I feared was not blood, but the loss of someone I loved. Didn't we? As has happened to your sister.”
“Whispering!! You don't get it! You're just a stranger coming into my life!” Seeji stood up and faced Takai with his agitated eyes.
“What's the difference with me? You're also just a stranger in my life.”
Seeji was wide-eyed by Takai's response. They look at. Takai knew what Seeji felt through his eyes.
“Then..... until now, is there no one you care about? You live only on your own interests? Like that?”
“Then...what do you want to meet me...?”.
“I want to end this with our fight. Seeji.”
“Basic stubbornness.”
Seeji then stood up and took off his robe. Then they faced each other, and Takai knelt down.
“Nona, my name is Takai. I present a fight that will surely satisfy you. Will you accept it?”
Seeji was surprised to see Takai imitating him and his expression did not show the usual joking.
“T-certain”
“Good.” Takai then stood up.
“Strike me, Seeji.”
Seeji was silent for a moment. Then clenched his hands and attacked Takai, Takai immediately repelled him.
“Too weak! Stronger still!!”
Seeji's face was visibly irritated, he dealt Takai as hard as he could. But Takai's defense is harder to break.
“Is this just how you are capable of? Stronger still!!”
They continued to clash blows, Takai simply deflected, restrained, and reversed every punch and kick that Seeji had deployed.
Without feeling it, the fight continued until the day leading up to night. Seeji is running out of energy.
“Hah...hah.
“how?... still... want to fight?”
“HEAAAAAH!!”
MY DAAK!!
Seeji's punch was stronger, and Takai held up Seeji's punch with both hands. His palm clasped Seeji's hand in a fist. Seeji then fell silent
“Can't.. can't anymore.”.
Seeji. He cried in front of Takai, and Takai was still holding his hand.
“I can't, help someone again.”.
“Seeji..”.
“I can't protect my sister, can I protect others?”
Takai clenched and stroked her, although her heart became calmer, Seeji cried even louder. Her grief-filled feelings were no longer harbored alone.
‘Hate disappears. I have to find another way..’.
SYUUTS
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They sat down next to the cliff. It was getting darker in the middle of the sun.
“Heeh... So you live in the Aven Mountains huh?”
“..?”
“I live near Azurite and lowland, so it is rare to see a mountain with such a close distance.”
Seeji just fell silent. Hugging her knees she was unable to respond to Takai.
“Oh yes, you dropped this.” Takai gave Seeji's necklace which he dropped.
“My necklace!”
“You said it was precious to you, so I picked it up.”
“I'm really sloppy..”
“I... met Reeji in my dream.”
“What...? You met him?”
“He seems to be worried about you. He told me what you were doing and where you were. So.. so”
“So... he is indeed easy to worry about anything.. he easily panics, crybaby, and... a pleasant child.”.
“….”
“I saw his memory when I touched the jewel in his necklace, which was sandwiched between my house buildings. I was very surprised, he threw his necklace and lost his breath while choking..."
"You deliberately kept it in her necklace?"
"To keep watch.but who would have thought...even my necklace that makes it like that... at least I can see it..."
"......"
"Nothing was left there, even after my strength destroyed the rubble... I couldn't think clearly back then.”.
Seeji deflects both of his necklaces. The jewel on Seeji's necklace turned color with Reeji's necklace. Similarly, wooden ornaments in the form of two triangles that surround it
"I couldn't even be there when he trusted me..."
“Seeji..”.
“I always imagined, when I met him back, I would tell him my journey, show him my ability and then amaze him, introduce you, he would smile and say, greetings know. My name is Reeji.. his sister Seeji Nee - the same... and then, looking for items to take guests home...
Seeji smiled a little in the midst of his sadness while imagining his sister who was now out of nowhere. Takai remembers what Seeji said to his mother that night.
'Is there someone you love or someone you always think of?'
'Well, I only loved 1 person all this time, my sister. I left her when she was 10. Now he must be 12..'
'what about your parents?'
It turned out that Takai eavesdropped on their conversation behind the room.
'Seeji did not answer...'
Takai finally understood. He's just alone now.
“Only he... someone who has been on my mind all this time... is he okay, after I leave…. What it does.. and..”.
Seeji's words stopped. She held back her tears.
“Did he always hope that I would save him..when he was in danger and kept waiting for me, expecting my presence.. until..he ended up like that.”.
“…..”
“But... i.. did not come.. let alone he just passed his birthday.... Special day for a little boy like.”.
Seeji was upset with himself. Then covered his face with both knees.
“You don't have to keep blaming yourself. It wasn't your fault.”
“!?”
“Reeji is like a weapon to you. When you lose your weapon, you don't know what to do and just wait for the enemy to finish you off.”
“Takai.”
“But you can still fight with a makeshift weapon, even if it's just an underpowered blow, haha.”.
“Whispering ah...” Seeji was offended.
“You left your heart empty, and that's what happened."
"Huh...."
"You told me once ‘you should control your emotions so that no one gets hurt’, but, you yourself can't turn out.hahaha.”.
“Hey.. I can't, but I failed.. Stop laughing at me, stupid.” Seeji hits Takai slowly. More likely to feel insinuated by the man with the headband.
“Iya... Yes..”
“Then, what should I do?”
“When the glass you want to drink is empty, what will you do?”
“Filling it back?”
“Fright!”
“Then, what fills an empty heart?”
“Maybe... love?”.
Takai looked at Seeji with a deep look. But Seeji still sees the red clouds that are about to disappear.
"Haha... love...? It was so simple..."
Seeji smiled, disperse the reverie of Takai.
“Takai, you are a fool.... Empty glass can be filled with anything..tau..”.
BRRUUUK
Seeji then lay on the ground with his feet still on the edge of the cliff. Then he smiled. Takai was relieved to see Seeji could smile back.
“This means... I've passed the test right?”
“But.” Seeji replied in a cold and chirpy tone.
“Weh??!! Why?”
“Our fight is not over.”
“But I beat you!”
“We'll see later..” Seeji smiled cynically while looking at Takai who folded his arms.
“Seeji..” Takai was disappointed with Seeji's reply.
Seeji laughed a little. He then saw two necklaces in his hand.
“I can't wear two necklaces at once, what if you have one of them?”
“But, it's Reeji's necklace isn't it?”
“It's okay, I can't use the things I've given others. I'm sure Reeji also wants you to wear it, because he's asking you for help right?”
“Then, thanks!”
“It is precisely... I am the.. who must... ber.....”.
“Seeji?”
When Takai saw Seeji he was already asleep. Seeji is really running out of energy.
“T...sleep?”
Seeji's face while asleep like that made Takai smile amusedly.
“Maybe you don't remember when you last slept, basic.”.
The night wind was getting colder. Takai went back to thinking about how hard it was to fight alone.
“One - the only.... person he has in mind...”.
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‘EEh... warm light...’.
‘ji..’.
‘?’
‘Seeji..’.
'You..’.
‘I will always take care of you..’.
GRREB'S!
Seeji was surprised, as he flew away from his strange dream, he hugged someone.
“!!”
“Seeji - san?”
“Kyusin..”.
Seeji wakes up on the bed and sees Kyusin next to him. Reflek immediately took off his punch earlier.
"That one....Kyosine..."
“Seeji - san, are you okay? Would you like another break?”
“Not ..aku..baik..”.
“You know, it was Seeji - san say ‘ibu' loh...”
“A..aku?”
Kyusin. Seeji was only speechless at Kyusin's response.
“What Seeji - san miss your mother?”
“Which is possible... I never saw his face..”.
“S...Seeji san..!”
Kyusin approached him.
“What's up?”
“No... Seeji san should know, even though the physiques never meet, the heart will always be connected! Physically it's different from the heart, Seeji-san... That heart will be stronger.”.
"I've heard that often. Physical wounds are easier to recover than liver wounds."
"Is that what happened to you?"
“Physical problem.... how about your wound.?”
"I'm good, Seeji - san.. don't have to worry about it, because heal - san has treated my wound perfectly until it barely looks like a trace.” Kyusin convinces Seeji while patting his chest.
“But ..I hurt you with a big enough wound...”.
Seeji felt that something was strange, the person who healed Kyusin was definitely not an ordinary person.
“Already.... Kyusin, I'm sorry... I lost my emotions..”.
“I accept your apology... I know you have a heavier burden right now.”.
“How are you? After a long time did not meet..”.
Seeji knew Kyuusin had not forgotten about the incident because of the spark of his hose.
“As you can see at the moment.”.
“How about the others?”
“Everything is fine...the store also goes back... and.... you know Seeji - san? About Musubime - kun..”
“Oh...his child Himeji - san.?”
“He does not remember the incident, as well as others.. even Himeji - san as well..."
"It was for their own good. They cannot remember the terrible event. I purposely kept you in mind so you could prevent something like that from happening again."
"Seeji - san, thank you for believing in me."
"Kyucine.."
"And it turned out to be Seeji - san also who saved him huh... Good thing she didn't get carried away by black hoseki.”.
Seeji was surprised Kyusin knew about the black hoseki.
“Kyusin! How do you know?!”
“Eeeh? Takai san told me that..”.
“Ooh...Takai yes..”
“Take a lot of stories to me.. And instead, I tell you what Seeji did while in the boutique with me, indeed.it's a secret..?”
“My fight is in another dimension. So if the fight is behind, then the information should also stay behind.”
“Eehm! I'll keep it a secret.”
‘Think... Other people... Fortunately..he's the guy I know.’.
“Where to use? And this is where?”
“Takai - san brought you here while sleeping, this is just a suburban inn, and currently Takai san is in town looking for something.”
“Any once she searched for something.”
Seeji then stood up and took his coat.
“Seeji san?”
“Kyusin, I want to go to the city, besides I also want to meet someone called 'Heal - san' it.”
Seeji intends to go to the city, Kyusin then accompany Seeji to go there.
'Some time ago, there was a rumor that said that there were doctors with extraordinary abilities hiding in the forest, the torture victims who were thrown into the forest were able to recover and come out of the forest to inform the criminals. But his existence is kept secret from the general public and calls himself 'Heal - san...''